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Dude, that's insanely awesome! Well done!

Hope you are healing and feeling much better!

Imma have to try some keto pancake recipes. I found some SF maple syrup on Amazon and now all I can think of is faux pancakes!

LOVE the runners too. Lookin' good!!

Week One Update: we'll I have totally been ignoring the Carb limit *sigh* I even ate rice tonight and I haven't done that in ages!! However I have done well on the fasting front, caught up three days, eleven to go. Dunno about my weight as Tue is my weigh-in day.

Heheh your onions have a life of their own!

Gosh I love looking at people's fridges!! I thought I'd be able to recognise what stuff is, but it's hard coz y'all live overseas where your cans and jars and packets have unfamiliar names. Except Fairlife Milk. So many peeps talk about it on BP haha.

Zomg my food funerals now seem outrageous to me. I bought a huge bag of cheezles, three cream bun things and ate them all in the car so my husband wouldn't know. I scoffed down a massive galaxy bar of chocolate and I'm sure I did other stuff too. I thought I'd never be able to eat them again. Now the very idea of doing that seems cray cray to me. I literally don't WANT to eat like that whereas I really thought I'd be suffering not being able to.

Having said that, I read it a little closer and my brain has definitely changed my memory of what withdrawals were. I thought they were times of being needy eg when you feel down and need a shoulder to cry on, or you have to back out of a commitment with a friend coz you're not feeling up to it. Whereas in that table, withdrawals are more negative behaviours. Huh, interesting!

Yes! Wow, you are good at the research!!

Gee that's a big difference!! You're looking like you've always been slim!

Wowweee you look fabulous! That outfit is lovely on you!

Oh that sauce for the chicken looks goooooood!

Exactly!

Sounds very sensible. Also, interesting your hubs thinks it's been one-sided for a while.

I don't think I can really claim credit. I'm sure I read it somewhere but I can't remember where. Might have been Boundaries by Cloud and Townshend.

I have tried to label some of the more unidentifiable stuff. There's no rhyme or reason to my fridge organisation lol.

Gorgeous! That haircut suits you so well!!

Me *waving hands in air*. I have a history of kidney stones but that was nearly ten years ago. So about eight weeks after surgery I developed one (although small enough to not show up on xray). I spent about four days feeling bloody miserable, one of them in the ER trying to figure out is it was stuck. Next day it alleviated and I've been fine since so I'm pretty sure I passed it. I had been taking calcium but I stopped. I do need to ask my surgeon what to do, but I've been lazy and haven't done that yet.

Please God your surgery is a success and you have minimal discomfort. Ask for all the good drugs!

Friendships are kind of like a joint bank account where if its healthy, both people make deposits and both make withdrawals. If she has made a lot of friendship deposits in the past (being supportive, listening to you, helping you out, giving in your time of need etc.) then it just might be her time to make a few withdrawals now (your time to support her, even if it feels a bit one way). But, if you're always making deposits and she is always making withdrawals, it's not a friendship, it's codependency or she might be a user. Only you can honestly know which. But if it's creating feelings of resentment in you, it might be worth examining whether this friendship can really be kept alive or not. Sometimes relationships come to an end and its time to move on, as difficult as it may seem.

Dinner tonight: prawns lightly pan fried in 0.5 tsp oil and a small dash of Nando's Lemon Herb marinade; air-fryer sweet potato (par cooked in microwave and seasoned before air frying with spray of rapeseed) and a salad with Walden's Creamy Italian. No after photo coz I ate it alllllllll.

I do modified keto - cut out all sugary and starchy carbs (sugar, rice, potato, bread etc) but eat whatever fruit and veggies and legumes I like. So, not really true keto but keto-ish. Facing said that, I've just started the Jan challenge and want to keep my net carbs under 50 a day so that means no fruit most likely.

Proudest 2018 moment: worked really hard to lose weight over 2018. In Feb I had a bariatric appointment to discuss possible revision surgery and was 143 kilos / 315 lbs. Worked really hard even with dodgy lapband that either had no effect when too lose or terrible reflux whenever it was tightened and by October got down to 127.5 / 281 lbs for revision surgery. Every pound was hard won I tell ya. So proudest moment was when I got on plane to go to Belgium for my surgery and the seat belt fit without an extender. I was so delighted and happy! First time in decades I hadn't needed to ask for an extender.

Day 3: 2018 goals. I didn't really have any except to get the surgery which, yay, I did. I'm not a big goal setter usually, I'm a fly by the seat of my pants, make it up as I go along type of gal.